frowst

• froust

Back-formation from frowsty.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /fɹaʊst/

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• Rhymes: -aʊst

frowst (plural frowsts)

1. Stuffiness; stifling warmth in a room.
   • 1916, John Buchan, Greenmantle:

     I was pretty bad myself, but managed to move about all the time, for the frowst in my cabin would have sickened a hippo.

• (stuffiness; stifling warmth): stuffiness
• fustiness

frowst (third-person singular simple present frowsts, present participle frowsting, simple past and past participle frowsted)

1. (intransitive) To enjoy being in a warm, close, stuffy place.
   • 1902, Rudyard Kipling, “(please specify the story)”, in Just So Stories: For Little Children, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC:

     The cure for this ill is not to sit still, / Or frowst with a book by the fire;

   • 2016, John Owens, A Month of Sundays

     […] punting a footer around the quad on a beautiful day like today, not frowsting in their studies.